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«A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.»
Author: David Brinkley
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Journalist)
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About:
Men,
Success
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Keywords:
bricks,
brick in,
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
foundation,
get laid,
lay,
laying on,
successful,
The Brick,
thrown
«All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(
Physicist)
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About:
God,
Universe
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Keywords:
casino,
casinos,
dice,
gambler,
gamblers,
occasion,
quite a,
roulette,
roulette wheel,
spin,
spinning wheel,
The Casino,
The Gambler,
thrown,
wheels
«In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(
Film Director)
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About:
Audiences,
Elderly
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Keywords:
audiences,
failings,
kicked,
limelight,
smarter,
The Dog,
The Limelight,
thrown,
villain,
villains
«Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
aim,
earth,
get,
heaven,
Heaven on Earth,
neither,
take aim,
thrown,
throw in,
throw out,
throw up
«Gifts should be handed, not thrown»
«How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.»
«All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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About:
Experience,
Life
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Keywords:
activity,
advancement,
advancements,
conduct,
determined,
for the most part,
impediments,
perseverance,
resolution,
steady,
surmount,
surmounted,
surmounting,
The Conduct of Life,
thrown,
zeal
«A dog knows the places he is thrown food.»
«Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w»
«His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork»